Why is it so easy for British people to mimic American accents

>>79147247
The British have a deeper theatrical history therefore better schooling when it comes to acting.

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Brits are the genetic ancestors of Americans, Americans are the genetic descendants of Brits
It goes forwards, but not backwards
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Its like how you need a computer faster than a games console if you want to emulate that console
An American imitating a British accent is like a NES trying to emulate a modern i5

>>79147247
If that is even true it is because Americans don't have accents. Ours is default. Most brits sing in an "american accent" as well.

>>79147247
Bongs aren't retarded like Burgers.

You'd think it'd be easy for Americans, considering they're fake as hell.

>>79147247
I read in a well known reddit post that ancient british actually sounded more similar to american accent than modern day britshit accent

>>79147247
I hope you're not using Andrew Lincoln as an example of a good American accent. His accent's about as good as his gun handling.

>>79147247
Exposure. They watch more of our media than we do theirs.

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>>79147380
>ancient british
This is why you don't get your facts from well known reddit posts

>>79147247
Accents are just extra bullshit. Americans dropped the extra bullshit and never learned it at childhood.

For a Euro or Aussie to sound American they just need to drop the extra bullshit. Americans need to try to mimic something they didn't learn from childhood

>>79147247
Maggie is terrible, though.

>>79147466
Australian is easy to mimic. Just shove in a bunch of superfluous diphthongs and make every sentence sound like a question.

Its because American English is a sclose to unaccented as you can get so you're basically just forcing the Brits to drop all of there retarded syllables. Its easier to make people speak the correct way than the wrong way.

>>79147247
Same reason it's easy for chimps to communicate with humans but we can't Mimic ape grunts as easily.
It's easy to mimic progression but difficult to regress back to something primitive and make it sound realistic.

>>79147247
Rick
Morgan
Maggie
Negan
Governor
Jesus

What other characters are British?

>>79147475
True. But Brits can't tell.

>>79147548
Is this supposed to be bait?

>>79147531

I have never heard an American pull off a convincing Australian accent.

>>79147404
Look, the 1700's was like, over 300 years ago...that's pretty fucking ancient

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it's easier to go downhill

>>79147343
This. Americans speak in the most neutral accent. This just can't be refuted.

>>79147672
'No'

>>79147640
Then I assume you've never seen this before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FGVh1dj0A

>>79147343
>>79147678

Quality bait.

>>79147640
My cousin with cerebral palsy and downs syndrome did when he ate too big of a spoonful of peanut butter and tried to talk.

>>79147640
jim carey did it perfect in dumb and dumber. PUT AHNDAHA SHRIMP ON DA BARBIE

>>79147343
>>79147678
This is wrong though because the 'singing accent' is actually controlled by different brain functions to a 'speaking accent'

>>79147734

That's a great episode but it's a fucking terrible Aussie accent.

>>79147770
Well he is Canadian after all

>>79147366
Sure thing, Ahmed.

>>79147749
Prove me wrong
Protip: (You) can't

>>79147640
Just smoke some weed out of a garden hose and it's easy.

>>79147798
Do I look Swedish to you?

>>79147784
Then it is interesting that the singing accent sounds American.

>>79147834
Sven abdul ibn Muhammad al bin mustafa

>>79147672
It isn't by the very definition

>>79147810

No, of course not, because a neutral accent is inherently the one that is closest to your own while still being intelligible to others.

>>79147934

Not every definition, not by any means. It's quite common to draw the line between ancient and modern history at the French Revolution, which kicked off in 1789. That said, many historians who'd agree with that would also probably use the term "medieval history" for the 1066 - 1789 period just for clarity's sake.

>>79147734
>Dollarydoos

I always crack up at that.

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>>79148026
what kind of retard moron idiot historian would fucking date the medieval period up until 1789?

>>79148026
It's more the fact that the development of Old High German into Old English, Middle English, Modern English etc. has been charted meticulously over several centuries now that makes 'ancient British' sound so retarded, 'ancient' in that context just feels semantically wrong

>ameripoors are so poorly educated they actually believe they don't have an accent, but everyone else does

Christ, no wonder you elected Trump. You're objectively the dumbest country on earth.

Because English is also American

Because they get hired for way less

That is the truth right there.

>>79148026
Middle ages goes up to the Renaissance, typically defined as the 16th century, from there it's sometimes called early modern or pre-modern up to around the end of the 18th century.

>>79148197
Exactly. I find some of the American regional accents so horrendous that it's actually off-putting.

>>79147845
That's because popular music is rooted in the blues, you idiot, it has nothing to do with the nature of the accent itself. If the blues had arisen in France, people would sing in French accents

>>79148197
Do they even phonetics? They must realise that the way they pronounce "O" sounds is not how an O is pronounced.

>good jaaab

Hell, really upper class well-spoken Americans almost sound British sometimes